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Bariatric surgery may reduce life-threatening heart failure exacerbation in ob... A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital MGH investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation - a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms - in the two years following surgery. The report appears in the March Journal of the American College of Cardiology . We found that bariatric surgery - the most effective way to achie ... EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25
Chapman University examines what keeps passion alive in long-term relationships A Chapman University psychologist and his interdisciplinary research team have just published a study examining the sexual satisfaction -- or dissatisfaction -- of heterosexual couples in long-term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive. In one of the largest studies to date that scientifically examines what contributes to a satisfying long-term sex life, the findings indicate foreplay, setting the mood, mixing it up, and expre ... EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25
Study shows teen girls' sexual orientation not always a predictor of sexual be... About one in five lesbian and four in five bisexual teen girls who are sexually active had a recent male sex partner, according to a new U.S. study of close to 3,000 adolescent girls that appears in the March issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health . The study, which was co-authored by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York, also showed about a third 32 per cent of l ... EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25
Pregnancy Brain: The Expectant Mom's Guide, Part 2 My forgetful friend the subject of my original article gave birth to a baby girl on Thanksgiving Day. She s a beauty , and I know Mom agrees that the morning sickness, crazy sense of smell, and forgetfulness were worth it in the end. In the meantime, while she s experiencing a whole new set of biochemical processes that happens when a woman becomes a mother, let s re-explore even more crazy changes that affect or originate in the brain during pregnancy . W ... Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24
Do Millennials Have a Lower Work Ethic? The collision between the Millennial generation s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired. Jane has some undeniable points about the egregiously expensive rent in the Bay Area and the general ignorance of the well-off to recognize how difficult it is to make it these days. Yet her letter also captures the complai ... Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24
What Is Expertise? Everybody knows what an expert is it s somebody like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan in sports , Albert Einstein and James Watson in science, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Adele in music, or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in business. However, it turns out surprisingly difficult to provide a formal definition that everybody can agree with. There are in fact many definitions, but most are unsatisfactory see Gobet, 2015, for a detailed discussion . Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24
Could Adults' Expectations Drive Up ADHD Diagnoses in Kids? Rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD have risen globally, and adults unreasonable expectations of young children could be one reason why, researchers suggest. Reporting in the Feb. 22 issue of JAMA Pediatrics , researchers from the University of Miami point to evidence that the rise in ADHD diagnoses coincided with ever-growing demands on young children s attention and focus. Since the 1970s, the researchers said, elementary school childr ... Healthday - Wed. Feb 24
High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices AURORA, Colo. Feb. 24, 2016 - Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly, said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders ANN ARBOR -- Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell s built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway. The researchers from the School of Public Health and College of Engineering say their findings of a more passive entry of the materials into cells is the fi ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Television exposure directly linked to a thin body ideal in women For the first time experts have been able to eliminate external factors and specifically pinpoint television as having a direct link with female body ideals. It is known that the perception of a woman s perfect body shape is influenced by images of celebrities and models seen in the media. However, in the past, there has been little attempt to control variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological factors. Sc ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Everyday mindfulness linked to healthy glucose levels PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --Dispositional, or everyday mindfulness is the inherent trait of being aware of one s present thoughts and feelings. In a new study of 399 people that measured health indicators including dispositional mindfulness and blood glucose, researchers found that those with higher scores for mindfulness were significantly more likely than people with low scores to have healthy glucose levels. The results show an association and ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24
Clock gene may connect mood and sleep If you pull an all-nighter or stay up late to binge watch Game of Thrones, you will probably be grumpy the next day. But if you don t get enough sleep for weeks or months on end, you may develop depression or other lasting mood problems, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI researchers have now discovered a possible reason why. A team led by HHMI investigator Louis Pt 225 269 ek and Ying-Hui Fu of the University of California, San Francisco, identified ... EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Bariatric surgery may reduce life-threatening heart failure exacerbation in ob...

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital MGH investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation - a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms - in the two years following surgery. The report appears in the March Journal of the American College of Cardiology . We found that bariatric surgery - the most effective way to achie ...

EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25

Chapman University examines what keeps passion alive in long-term relationships

A Chapman University psychologist and his interdisciplinary research team have just published a study examining the sexual satisfaction -- or dissatisfaction -- of heterosexual couples in long-term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive. In one of the largest studies to date that scientifically examines what contributes to a satisfying long-term sex life, the findings indicate foreplay, setting the mood, mixing it up, and expre ...

EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25

Study shows teen girls' sexual orientation not always a predictor of sexual be...

About one in five lesbian and four in five bisexual teen girls who are sexually active had a recent male sex partner, according to a new U.S. study of close to 3,000 adolescent girls that appears in the March issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health . The study, which was co-authored by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York, also showed about a third 32 per cent of l ...

EurekAlert - Thu. Feb 25

Pregnancy Brain: The Expectant Mom's Guide, Part 2

My forgetful friend the subject of my original article gave birth to a baby girl on Thanksgiving Day. She s a beauty , and I know Mom agrees that the morning sickness, crazy sense of smell, and forgetfulness were worth it in the end. In the meantime, while she s experiencing a whole new set of biochemical processes that happens when a woman becomes a mother, let s re-explore even more crazy changes that affect or originate in the brain during pregnancy . W ...

Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24

Do Millennials Have a Lower Work Ethic?

The collision between the Millennial generation s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired. Jane has some undeniable points about the egregiously expensive rent in the Bay Area and the general ignorance of the well-off to recognize how difficult it is to make it these days. Yet her letter also captures the complai ...

Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24

What Is Expertise?

Everybody knows what an expert is it s somebody like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan in sports , Albert Einstein and James Watson in science, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Adele in music, or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in business. However, it turns out surprisingly difficult to provide a formal definition that everybody can agree with. There are in fact many definitions, but most are unsatisfactory see Gobet, 2015, for a detailed discussion .

Psychology Today - Wed. Feb 24

Could Adults' Expectations Drive Up ADHD Diagnoses in Kids?

Rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD have risen globally, and adults unreasonable expectations of young children could be one reason why, researchers suggest. Reporting in the Feb. 22 issue of JAMA Pediatrics , researchers from the University of Miami point to evidence that the rise in ADHD diagnoses coincided with ever-growing demands on young children s attention and focus. Since the 1970s, the researchers said, elementary school childr ...

Healthday - Wed. Feb 24

High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices

AURORA, Colo. Feb. 24, 2016 - Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly, said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Immune cells don't always ward off carbon nano invaders

ANN ARBOR -- Scientists at the University of Michigan have found evidence that some carbon nanomaterials can enter into immune cell membranes, seemingly going undetected by the cell s built-in mechanisms for engulfing and disposing of foreign material, and then escape through some unidentified pathway. The researchers from the School of Public Health and College of Engineering say their findings of a more passive entry of the materials into cells is the fi ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Television exposure directly linked to a thin body ideal in women

For the first time experts have been able to eliminate external factors and specifically pinpoint television as having a direct link with female body ideals. It is known that the perception of a woman s perfect body shape is influenced by images of celebrities and models seen in the media. However, in the past, there has been little attempt to control variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological factors. Sc ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Everyday mindfulness linked to healthy glucose levels

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] --Dispositional, or everyday mindfulness is the inherent trait of being aware of one s present thoughts and feelings. In a new study of 399 people that measured health indicators including dispositional mindfulness and blood glucose, researchers found that those with higher scores for mindfulness were significantly more likely than people with low scores to have healthy glucose levels. The results show an association and ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24

Clock gene may connect mood and sleep

If you pull an all-nighter or stay up late to binge watch Game of Thrones, you will probably be grumpy the next day. But if you don t get enough sleep for weeks or months on end, you may develop depression or other lasting mood problems, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI researchers have now discovered a possible reason why. A team led by HHMI investigator Louis Pt 225 269 ek and Ying-Hui Fu of the University of California, San Francisco, identified ...

EurekAlert - Wed. Feb 24